Colour is obviously a very personal choice, but I have one black bike and one white one. I would buy another white bike in an instant, but would be careful about buying a black one. Once black bikes (or mine at least) get older, no matter how much I wash it, it never looks very smart. The white one looks as good as the day I bought it.

After a fairly bad accident 2 years ago, I was told to stay off the bike indefinitely. The bones healed but I kept ripping my cartilage from my sternum. Sold all my bikes because it was just going to be too tempting to go out and ride and end up back at square one.

Fast forward two years and I'm in better shape than I have ever been. Time for a new bike